[Bug 767795] Re: [Vostro 130] Installation freezes

[Rob King]

I'm running the latest BIOS update (A06) on a Vostro v130, and it
randomly freezes. It makes it through installation, but will randomly
and completely freeze when under high load. It appears to lock up under
high load even when the Atheros network card is disabled via the
hardware switch.

Running under 10.04 did not have these issues; it never locked up even
under high load.

The full steps to reproduce, and the associated symptoms:

1) Start the system, log in to Unity.
2) Put the system under heavy IO load. I've done this using rsync via both the WiFi interface and the wired ethernet interface (the latter with both the WiFi interface active and inactve).
3) After anywhere from five minutes to an hour, the system completely freezes. It is not possible to switch virtual terminals, the system does not respond to any network traffic (ping, SSH), and it is completely unresponsive.

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Title:
  [Vostro 130] Installation freezes

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  When installing by PXE boot or by usb, the installer will freeze consistently with natty (beta2 image). The installer will not freeze with the maverick image. The point at which the installer freezes does not seem to be consistent.
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  Architecture: i386
  DeviceMapperTables:
   Error: command ['dmsetup', 'table'] failed with exit code 1: /dev/mapper/control: open failed: Permission denied
   Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
   Command failed
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  DmraidDevices: Error: command ['dmraid', '-r'] failed with exit code 1: ERROR: you must be root
  DmraidSets: Error: command ['dmraid', '-s'] failed with exit code 1: ERROR: you must be root
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413)
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Vostro V130
  MemoryUsage:
   total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
   Mem:       1921840    1041180     880660          0     118280     587320
   -/+ buffers/cache:     335580    1586260
   Swap:      1954812          0    1954812
  Package: debian-installer (not installed)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Tags:  natty running-unity
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
  dmi.bios.date: 12/29/2010
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A04
  dmi.board.name: 0HGVXP
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A04
  dmi.chassis.type: 8
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: A04
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA04:bd12/29/2010:svnDellInc.:pnVostroV130:pvrA04:rvnDellInc.:rn0HGVXP:rvrA04:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA04:
  dmi.product.name: Vostro V130
  dmi.product.version: A04
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.